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Sugar Mill Estates, Florida

16 topographic sheets cover this place, the earliest surveyed in 1937 and the latest in 1978. It stands in the New Smyrna Beach census division. It lies in ZIP code area 32168. It stands on Turnbull Creek. The Survey maps it on the New Smyrna Beach quadrangle.

Sugar Mill Estates within Volusia County

Then and now

1937 to 1978

The same ground, surveyed 41 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet of Sugar Mill Estates, surveyed 1978
Topographic sheet of Sugar Mill Estates, surveyed 1937

Compare 1937 against another survey:

Topographic sheets covering this place

9 surveys from 16 printed sheets

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

Fires near this place

241 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 241 fires within 5 miles of Sugar Mill Estates between 1992 and 2020, burning about 3,044 acres in total. 111 started naturally. 19 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause Fires
Natural111
Equipment and vehicle use42
Missing data/not specified/undetermined31
Arson/incendiarism19
Railroad operations and maintenance14
Misuse of fire by a minor12
Debris and open burning5
Recreation and ceremony4
Power generation/transmission/distribution2
Fireworks1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
2 September 1999Arson/incendiarism3.0 acresFlorida Forest Servicenot named
17 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF 10TH STREET
17 September 2006Arson/incendiarismunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF 10TH STREET #2
15 September 2013Natural2.5 acresFlorida Forest ServiceCHAMPION-I95 (64)
6 August 2010Natural5.0 acresFlorida Forest ServiceWF-64-SECTION 32 FIRE
3 August 2016Natural17 acresMerritt Island National Wildlife RefugeCHAMPION
3 August 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFlorida Forest ServiceWF-64-SPRUCE CREEK PRESERVE
3 August 1996Naturalunder an acreFlorida Forest Servicenot named

Settlements close enough to share some of these fires:

Every fire recorded in Volusia County

Nearest settlements

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Map PlaceDistance Sheets
Glencoe1.4 miles16
Isleboro2.4 miles16
Mission City2.4 miles16
New Smyrna (historical)2.7 miles16
New Smyrna Beach3.2 miles16
Sugar Mill Ruins Travel Park3.6 miles16
Samsula3.8 miles12
Ponce Park4.1 miles16

Elsewhere

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

Wikidata item Q122572019The structured record the population and elevation above come from. Public domain (CC0).

Provenance

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 307367. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.